Patents by Inventor Chris Ackles

Chris Ackles has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10157005
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to utilize non-volatile random access memory for information storage in response to error conditions are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include accessing, with a power control unit associated with a processor, first information describing available capacities of respective reserved regions of a plurality of non-volatile memory modules, the respective reserved regions of the non-volatile memory modules being separate from respective host-visible regions of the non-volatile memory modules. Disclosed example methods also include configuring, with the power control unit, an information storage architecture based on the first information. Disclosed example methods further include storing, with the power control unit, second information in one or more of the respective reserved regions of the non-volatile memory modules in accordance with the information storage architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Swanson, Tony S. Baker, Theodros Yigzaw, Chris Ackles, Celeste M. Brown
  • Publication number: 20180095681
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to utilize non-volatile random access memory for information storage in response to error conditions are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include accessing, with a power control unit associated with a processor, first information describing available capacities of respective reserved regions of a plurality of non-volatile memory modules, the respective reserved regions of the non-volatile memory modules being separate from respective host-visible regions of the non-volatile memory modules. Disclosed example methods also include configuring, with the power control unit, an information storage architecture based on the first information. Disclosed example methods further include storing, with the power control unit, second information in one or more of the respective reserved regions of the non-volatile memory modules in accordance with the information storage architecture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Robert C. Swanson, Tony S. Baker, Theodros Yigzaw, Chris Ackles, Celeste M. Brown